The old Rasmussen Stadium at Third Street and Main was no longer in use. The once thriving baseball stadium had a padlock on the front gate. The economy in the small college town of Pearl City had collapsed seven years ago. Many of its residents had up and vanished in search of high-paying jobs elsewhere. Baseball had vanished as well. The local residents missed the crack of the bat, the sound of a blazing fastball pounding into the catcher's mitt...